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Statistics, Econometrics, Pedagogy
R, SQL, Tableau, Markdown, Latex

Aspiring user of Python, Julia, Vim

Interests

Quantitative Marketing, Customer Analytics, Market Research, Causal Inference, Bayesian Methods, Structural Models of Demand, Consumer Search

Personal

US Citizen; Married; Two children

Play soccer, cycle, sip bourbon, build mechanical keyboards, collect pocket knives, memorize children books

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Last updated on 2023-11-29

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Dan Yavorsky

Analytics at GBK | Lecturer at UCLA & UCSD

I lead the Marketing Science and Analytics function alongside co-founder and professor Eric Bradlow at GBK Collective where I apply econometric, statistical, and machine learning analyses to support our consultants in solving our clients’ business problems.

I also teach courses in Customer Analytics and Econometrics at the UCSD Rady and UCLA Anderson business schools.

Education

PhD Quantitative Marketing

UCLA Anderson

Los Angeles, CA

2020

MBA, Management

UCLA Anderson

Los Angeles, CA

2014

CFA Charterholder

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute

San Francisco, CA

2012

BA, Economics & Mathematics

Claremont McKenna College

Claremont, CA

2006

Professional Experience

Senior Vice President, Analytics

GBK Collective

Los Angeles, CA

Present - 2022

  • Run the day-to-day operations of our analytics function. This includes interfacing with client and project teams, execute analysis, extending and researching analytic methodology, exploring analytic solutions to business problems, developing best practices implementing those solutions, and growing and managing the analytics team.

Manager, Advanced Analytics

Bain & Co.

Los Angeles, CA

2021 - 2020

  • Performed marketing analytics to support strategic management consulting engagements, including conjoint analysis, maximum-difference scaling, customer segmentation, perceptual mapping, and other statistical or econometric analysis.
  • Developed ecosystem of statistical and machine learning models to enable media conglomerate to value content on its streaming platforms and optimize media licensing decisions.

Graduate Student Research Assistant

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

2019 - 2015

  • Provided research assistance for Chen, Chevalier, Rossi, and Oehlsen “The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers” Journal of Political Economy, 2019.
  • Updated and maintained Professor Rossi’s R package bayesm, including programming of functions that estimate parameters of Bayesian statistical models, authorship of vignettes, and revisions to documentation.

Research Associate

Cornerstone Research

Los Angeles, CA

2014 - 2006

  • Performed economic, financial, and statistical analysis to support professors engaged as expert witnesses in over 100 commercial litigation matters related to consumer fraud, bankruptcy, forensic accounting, asset pricing, and others.
  • Led substantial internal intiatives including firm-wide analyst training and recruiting for the Los Angeles office.

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Present - 2021

  • Econometrics (MFE 402)
  • Marketing Strategy and Policy (EMBA 411)

Lecturer, UCSD

University of California, San Diego

San Diego, CA

Present - 2021

  • Customer Analytics (MGT 100)
  • Business Analytics (MGT 153)

Teaching Assistant

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

2020 - 2015

  • Econometrics (with Peter Rossi for MFE)
  • R Programming (with Peter Rossi for MsBA)
  • Data Science (with Stephan Seiler for MsBA)
  • Customer Analytics (with Anand Bodapati for MsBA)
  • Pricing (with Elisabeth Honka for MBA)
  • Statistics (with Elisa Long for MBA)
  • Customer Analytics (with Brett Hollenbeck for MBA)

Publications

Consumer search in the U.S. auto industry: The role of dealership visits [PDF]

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Los Angeles, CA

2020

Dan Yavorsky, Elisabeth Honka, and Keith Chen